A Breath of Life

About Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century has been called astounding (Rachel Kushner) a penetrating genius (Donna Seaman Booklist) and one of the twentieth century''s most mysterious writers (Orhan Pamuk). Johnny Lorenz son of Brazilian immigrants to the United States was born in 1972. He received his doctorate in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and he is an associate professor at Montclair State University. In 2013 he was a finalist for Best Translated Book for his translation of A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (New Directions). His book of original poems Education by Windows was published in 2018 by Poets & Traitors Press; it includes his translations of the poet Mario Quintana for which he received a Fulbright grant. He has published articles on Brazilian literature in journals such as Luso-Brazilian Review and Modern Fiction Studies. He is also the translator of Lispector''s The Besieged City (New Directions). Benjamin Moser the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector is the editor of ND''s Clarice Lispector translation series of which this is the ninth volume. For Sontag: Her Life and Work he won the Pulitzer Prize.